Refrigerator-box.



No. 652,492. Patented .lune 26,1900.

C. J. STUART.

REFRIGERATOB BOX. (Application med mar. s, 1900.) (No Model.)

rNTIED TATES CHARLES J. STUART, PUYALLUP, VASHINGTON.

nEFmeERAToR-Box.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 652,492, dated June 26, 1900. Application led March 8, 1900. Serial No. 7,859. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES J. STUART, a citizen ot' the United States, residing at Puyallup, in the county of Pierce and State of Washington, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Refrigerator-Boxes; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The invention relates to refrigerator-boxes.

The object of the invention is to improve the construction shown and described in my application for patent filed August 29, 1899, Serial No. 728,883, and to provide boxes of this character which may be packed one on top the otherand permit of the replenishment of the ice while the boxes are in transit without disturbing said boxes or their contents, and to provide means for draining oit the condensed moisture that collects on the sides and bottom of the box, as well as the water from the melting ice, so that the same will not run onto the contents of the boxes, and thereby damage the same.

To these ends the invention consists in certain features of construction and combination of parts, which will be hereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a perspective viewof my improved box. Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional View. Fig. 3 is a detail perspective View of the ice-receptacle and the pan for receiving the condensed moisture which collects upon the ice-receptacle.

In the drawings the same reference characters indicate the same parts of the invention.

l denotes the body of the box or crate,which may be of any suitable construction and shape and which is provided with a hinged top 2 and an opening 8, covered by a door 4.

5 denotes the iceereceptacle, which is inserted through the opening 8 in the front of the box and is supported upon cleats or guides 6. To this receptacle is connected a condenserpan '7, which extends outwardly a greater distance than the sides of the receptacle and is designed to receive the condensed moisture that collects upon the sides andbottom of the receptacle and prevent such moisture from running oft" onto the fruit or other contents of the boxes. The pan is provided with a short outlet-pipe 8, preferably flexible, which leads to a drain-pipe 9, secured within the box. The lower end of this drain-pipe 9 projects into a drip-pan lO, which forms a trap and prevents the ingress of warm air to the interior of the box through said pipes 8 and 9.

These boxes in storage or transportation are adapted to be placed one upon the other, and to prevent injury to the pan l0 I provide the bottom of the box with spacing blocks or legs 11, which space the bottom of the box a sufcient distance from its support to prevent damage to the pan and permit of the boxes being slid off of one another in the act of mov ing them from place to place.

The ice may be replenished by simply opening the door 4, withdrawing the ice-receptacle 5, illing it, and placing it back in position. This may be done wit-hout disturbing the arrangement of the boxes one upon the other.

From the foregoing description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, the construction, operation, and advantages of my improved refrigerator-box will be readily apparent without requiring an extended explanation. It will be seen that the device is simple of construction, that said construction permits of its manufacture at small cost,

and that it is exceedingly well adapted for the' purpose for which it is designed.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed, and desired to be secured by Letters Patent, is-e A refrigeratorbox of the character described, comprising a body portion provided with a'cover and an opening in its side, a doorl for closing said opening, guides or cleats provided in said box, supports or legs secured to the bottom of the box, a drip-pan secured to the bottom of the box on its outer side, a drain-pipe secured within the box and having a funnel-shaped upper end and communicating at its lower end with the drip-pan, anicereceptacle seated on said guides or cleats and adapted to be withdrawn through the opening in the side of the box, a pan surrounding the bottom and a portion of the sides of said my hand in presence of two subscribing Witreceptaele and provided with a; exible disnesses.

charge-pipe which When the receptacle is in its proper position Withinv the box projects CHARLES J' STUART' 5 into the funnel-shaped upper end ofthe drain- Vitnesses:

pipe, substantially as set forth. ERIC P. TRUEDSON,

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set G. E. KEPHART. 

